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At Amazon, we believe that scientific innovation is essential to being the most customer-centric company in the world. Our scientists' ability to have an impact at scale allows us to attract some of the brightest minds across diverse fields including artificial intelligence, robotics, computer vision, economics, and sustainability. Join us in pioneering solutions to complex challenges that not only delight our customers but also help define the future of technology.
  • The program is designed for academics from universities around the globe who want to work on large-scale technical challenges while continuing to teach and conduct research at their universities.
  • The program offers recent PhD graduates an opportunity to advance research while working alongside experienced scientists with backgrounds in industry and academia.
  • Our internship roles span research areas to provide hands-on experience working alongside world-class scientists and engineers to advance the state of the art in your field.
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  • (Updated 5 days ago)
    Are you a PhD student interested in machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, automated reasoning, or robotics? We are looking for skilled scientists capable of putting theory into practice through experimentation and invention, leveraging science techniques and implementing systems to work on massive datasets in an effort to tackle never-before-solved problems. A successful candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, strong attention to detail, and the ability to work in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment. As an Applied Science Intern, you will own the design and development of end-to-end systems. You’ll have the opportunity to create technical roadmaps, and drive production level projects that will support Amazon Science. You will work closely with Amazon scientists, and other science interns to develop solutions and deploy them into production. The ideal scientist must have the ability to work with diverse groups of people and cross-functional teams to solve complex business problems. Amazon Science gives insight into the company’s approach to customer-obsessed scientific innovation. Amazon fundamentally believes that scientific innovation is essential to being the most customer-centric company in the world. It’s the company’s ability to have an impact at scale that allows us to attract some of the brightest minds in artificial intelligence and related fields. Our scientists use our working backwards method to enrich the way we live and work. To ensure a great internship experience, please keep these things in mind. This is a full time internship and requires an individual to work 40 hours a week for the duration of the internship. Amazon requires an intern to be located where their assigned team is. Amazon is happy to provide relocation and housing assistance if you are located 50 miles or further from the office location. For more information on the Amazon Science community please visit https://www.amazon.science.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3065534
    (Updated 8 days ago)
    Join our Generative AI focus team to innovate Software Development at Amazon Are you ready to be part of a team that's redefining the future of software engineering? Our team is Amazon's ambitious initiative to pioneer AI development practices that will fundamentally transform how we build software at scale. 🎯 Our Mission We’re building the next generation of development tools — uncovering how LLMs can originate new ways of thinking, building, and collaborating. 💫 What Makes Us Different * Ground-floor opportunity to shape the future of software development * Direct impact on Amazon's global engineering practices * Working with the latest technologies and large language models * Culture of experimentation and innovative thinking 🔍 What We’re Looking For You’ll lead the research, design, and development of AI technologies that challenge conventional software practices and uncover new ways for engineers to build and collaborate. You’re comfortable working in ambiguous spaces, exploring emergent behaviors, and collaborating with designers, prototypers, and engineers to test hypotheses in live, evolving systems. You explore where LLMs behave in unexpected yet promising ways, especially in tasks like context retention, code reasoning, or agent behavior , and use those moments to uncover new AI-native workflows. We’re looking for applied scientists with experience in areas like: + Information retrieval + Context and memory modeling + Agent behavior and autonomy + Code understanding and generation + Human-AI interaction 💡 What You'll Do * Prototype new ways of working with LLMs in engineering workflows * Help shape and evaluate scientific approaches behind agentic systems and engineering tools * Move fast with engineers and prototypers to guide design decisions and model choices * Make sense of unexpected model behavior and guide what to try next 🌱 Impact Your work will surface where LLMs can meaningfully change how Amazon engineers build. You’ll help the team uncover which surprises are worth pursuing and where to push beyond what’s already known. ✨ Always find a way 🔮💎🍔⭐️
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3052445
    (Updated 11 days ago)
    As part of the AWS Applied AI Solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon's unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers' businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon's real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use. The Principal Applied Scientist will drive the scientific vision for AI systems. The role requires tackling intrinsically hard, previously unsolved problems while balancing rapid innovation with reliability and compliance. You should be comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and driving solutions in ambiguous problem spaces. You'll work closely with senior technical leaders within the team and across AWS. We're looking for scientists who can maintain high standards while moving quickly, prioritizing both rapid experimentation and responsible AI development to deliver measurable customer impact. Key job responsibilities * Drive the scientific vision of teams in the organization and advise technical leadership on scientific challenges * Initiate and lead the design and delivery of science solutions that address significantly large or endemic customer and business problems * Propose innovative solutions to intrinsically hard, previously unsolved problems * Influence the organization towards adopting new approaches, concepts, and paradigms * Mentor and develop other scientists, fostering a culture of scientific excellence About the team Amazon Connect is a highly disruptive cloud-based contact center that enables businesses to deliver engaging, dynamic, and personal customer service experiences. Amazon Connect is the result of the ten years of development that went into building the tools Amazon uses to provide its award winning customer service at massive scale and launching it as a publicly available AWS service. With Amazon Connect, you can create your own cloud-based contact center and be taking calls in minutes. Amazon Connect leverages the power of Artificial Intelligence and the large ecosystem of AWS services such as Amazon Lex, Amazon Polly, AWS Lambda, Amazon S3 and Amazon Kinesis to provide a truly frustration free, easy-to-use, extensible, and natural customer experience. With this technology, we are transforming an industry and the way customers interact with businesses and how agents service them.
  • AU, VIC, Melbourne
    Job ID: 3043193
    (Updated 74 days ago)
    Are you excited about leveraging state-of-the-art Computer Vision algorithms and large datasets to solve real-world problems? Join Amazon as an Applied Scientist Intern and be at the forefront of AI innovation! As an Applied Scientist Intern, you'll work in a fast-paced, cross-disciplinary team of pioneering researchers. You'll tackle complex problems, developing solutions that either build on existing academic and industrial research or stem from your own innovative thinking. Your work may even find its way into customer-facing products, making a real-world impact. Please note: This internship is a duration of 6 months full time with a start date in Jan-March 2026. The successful intern is required to be based in Melbourne and relocation allowance will be provided if you are based outside of Melbourne. Key job responsibilities - Develop novel solutions and build prototypes - Work on complex problems in Computer Vision and Machine Learning - Contribute to research that could significantly impact Amazon's operations - Collaborate with a diverse team of experts in a fast-paced environment - Collaborate with scientists on writing and submitting papers to Tier-1 conferences (e.g., CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICML) - Present your research findings to both technical and non-technical audiences Key Opportunities: - Collaborate with leading machine learning researchers - Access cutting-edge tools and hardware (large GPU clusters) - Address challenges at an unparalleled scale - Become a disruptor, innovator, and problem solver in the field of computer vision - Potentially deliver solutions to production in customer-facing applications - Opportunities to become an FTE after the internship Join us in shaping the future of AI at Amazon. Apply now and turn your research into real-world solutions!
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3078193
    (Updated 65 days ago)
    AWS Agentic AI is looking for a world-class Applied Scientist with a strong deep learning background to help build industry-leading Agentic AI (models, systems, and applications). Our mission is to provide a delightful experience to Amazon’s customers by pushing the envelope in Natural Language Understanding (NLU), AI assisted code development, reasoning and planning with LLMs, LLM training and fine-tuning, and Applied Machine Learning (ML). As part of our AI team in Amazon AWS, you will work alongside internationally recognized experts to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state-of-the-art in Agentic AI. Your work will directly impact millions of our customers in the form of products and services that make use AI technology. You will gain hands on experience with Amazon’s heterogeneous text, structured data sources, and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in language understanding. We are hiring in all areas of Agentic AI: NLP/NLU, Conversational AI, Reasoning and Planning, LLM model training, and application development. Key job responsibilities - Develop breakthroughs is agentic architecture in areas such as autonomy, self-validation, and continuous learning. - Mentor and guide junior scientists. - Develop technology strategy and roadmap supporting product development - Develop prototypes for key technology, oversee the productization of the prototype, and develop critical assessment for the prototype - Write technical reports summarizing R&D progresses and communicate such progresses with stakeholders About the team The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Agentic AI team uses generative AI and foundation models to advance application development. In the space of software development and life cycle management, we see the application of AI anywhere: from the IDE to web-based tools and services, AI helps engineers work many applications. We explore new technologies and find creative solutions. Curiosity and an explorative mindset can find a place here to impact the life of engineers around the world. If you are excited about this space and want to enlighten your peers with new capabilities, this is the team for you.
  • (Updated 74 days ago)
    The Amazon Q Developer Science team is looking for an Applied Scientist who is passionate about building services and tools for developers that leverage artificial intelligence (AI) agents and machine learning (ML). You will be part of a team building AI-based services for Amazon Q Developer with the focus on redefining the way developer work. The team works in close collaboration with other AWS AI services such as AWS Bedrock, the AWS IDE Toolkit, and Amazon Sagemaker. If you are excited about working in cloud computing and building new AWS services, then we'd love to talk to you. Key job responsibilities As a senior Applied Scientist, you are recognized for your expertise, advise team members on a range of machine learning topics, and work closely with software engineers to drive the delivery of end-to-end modeling solutions. Your work focuses on ambiguous problem areas where the business problem or opportunity may not yet be defined. The problems that you take on require scientific breakthroughs. You take a long-term view of the business objectives, product roadmaps, technologies, and how they should evolve. You drive mindful discussions with customers, engineers, and scientist peers. You bring perspective and provide context for current technology choices, and make recommendations on the right modeling and component design approach to achieve the desired customer experience and business outcome. About the team Why AWS Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. Utility Computing (UC) AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (IoT), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services. Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud. Mentorship and Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Diverse Experiences Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
  • (Updated 53 days ago)
    Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. Prime members can customize their viewing experience and find their favorite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports – including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies; licensed fan favorites; and programming from Prime Video add-on subscriptions such as Apple TV+, Max, Crunchyroll and MGM+. All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can rent or buy titles via the Prime Video Store, and can enjoy even more content for free with ads. Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience. As a Prime Video technologist, you’ll have end-to-end ownership of the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. You’ll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You’ll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people. We’ll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. With global opportunities for talented technologists, you can decide where a career Prime Video Tech takes you! Key job responsibilities - Develop ML models for various recommendation & search systems using deep learning, online learning, and optimization methods - Work closely with other scientists, engineers and product managers to expand the depth of our product insights with data, create a variety of experiments to determine the high impact projects to include in planning roadmaps - Stay up-to-date with advancements and the latest modeling techniques in the field - Publish your research findings in top conferences and journals A day in the life We're using advanced approaches such as foundation models to connect information about our videos and customers from a variety of information sources, acquiring and processing data sets on a scale that only a few companies in the world can match. This will enable us to recommend titles effectively, even when we don't have a large behavioral signal (to tackle the cold-start title problem). It will also allow us to find our customer's niche interests, helping them discover groups of titles that they didn't even know existed. We are looking for creative & customer obsessed machine learning scientists who can apply the latest research, state of the art algorithms and ML to build highly scalable page personalization solutions. You'll be a research leader in the space and a hands-on ML practitioner, guiding and collaborating with talented teams of engineers and scientists and senior leaders in the Prime Video organization. You will also have the opportunity to publish your research at internal and external conferences. About the team Prime Video Recommendation Science team owns science solution to power recommendation and personalization experience on various Prime Video surfaces and devices. We work closely with the engineering teams to launch our solutions in production.
  • JP, 13, Tokyo
    Job ID: 3041536
    (Updated 11 days ago)
    The JP Books - Manga team is looking for a Sr. Applied Scientist to lead in our AI related efforts to develop new prototypes and concepts that can then be translated into meaningful technologies impacting millions of customers. In this position, you will be expected to research, design and build/train/tune models and provide recommendations in areas including but not limited to natural language processing (automatic translation, summarization, extraction) and image processing (boundary detection, image understanding, image generation). The ideal candidate will have strong knowledge in the areas of Computer Vision, Translations and or Image understanding/generation. This is the ideal role if you are excited about leveraging science for tangible business impact to the Manga books business. Amazon encourages publications, and you will work within an international team of engineers, all based in Tokyo, Japan while collaborating with partner scientists in Tokyo and Seattle. Key job responsibilities As an Sr. Applied Scientist, your responsibilities will be: - Spot opportunities for innovation using AI for the JP Manga business, and publish to internal or external conferences. - Work closely with other Books scientists and engineers to build, review and improve your model design proposals. - Partner with product managers and other business stakeholders, documenting and explaining your progress in business reviews, and being the technical voice in charge of your product. - Be active in the community, participating in science education/growth activities for Books and Amazon JP - Keep up to date with scientific development in related field About the team Our team develops and owns the experience for Manga books on Amazon in Japan. We build products powering the solutions offered to publishers, authors and customers in Japan and worldwide. We interact with Product Managers and business stakeholders to develop features that allow us to better serve our customers. We place strong emphasis on continuous learning through internal mechanisms for our team to keep on growing their expertise and keep up with the state of the art. Our mission is to establish Amazon Manga as the go-to destination for digital and print Manga.
  • (Updated 71 days ago)
    As a Principal Scientist within the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) organization, you are a trusted part of the technical leadership. You bring business and industry context to science and technology decisions. You set the standard for scientific excellence and make decisions that affect the way we build and integrate algorithms. You solicit differing views across the organization and are willing to change your mind as you learn more. Your artifacts are exemplary and often used as reference across organization. You are a hands-on scientific leader. Your solutions are exemplary in terms of algorithm design, clarity, model structure, efficiency, and extensibility. You tackle intrinsically hard problems, acquiring expertise as needed. You decompose complex problems into straightforward solutions. You amplify your impact by leading scientific reviews within your organization or at your location. You scrutinize and review experimental design, modeling, verification and other research procedures. You probe assumptions, illuminate pitfalls, and foster shared understanding. You align teams toward coherent strategies. You educate, keeping the scientific community up to date on advanced techniques, state of the art approaches, the latest technologies, and trends. You help managers guide the career growth of other scientists by mentoring and play a significant role in hiring and developing scientists and leads. You will play a critical role in driving the development of Generative AI (GenAI) technologies that can handle Amazon-scale use cases and have a significant impact on our customers' experiences. Key job responsibilities You will be responsible for defining key research directions, inventing new machine learning techniques, conducting rigorous experiments, and ensuring that research is translated into practice. You will develop long-term strategies, persuade teams to adopt those strategies, propose goals and deliver on them. You will also participate in organizational planning, hiring, mentorship and leadership development. You will be technically exceptional and with a passion for building scalable science and engineering solutions. You will serve as a key scientific resource in full-cycle development (conception, design, implementation, testing to documentation, delivery, and maintenance). A day in the life Define next‑generation scaling roadmaps and methodologies. Invent metrics and training recipes.  Research early‑signal predictors, automated curricula, and science of scaling. Lead cross‑org initiatives.  Mentor senior scientists and engineers. Own delivery under strict timelines.  Ship production code that cuts iteration latency and quality for Amazon’s flagship multimodal models. About the team Amazon’s AGI team is focused on building foundational AI to solve real-world problems at scale, delivers value to all existing businesses in Amazon, and enables entirely new services and products for people and enterprises around the world.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3044663
    (Updated 23 days ago)
    Innovators wanted! Are you an entrepreneur? A builder? A dreamer? This role is part of an Amazon Special Projects team that takes the company’s Think Big leadership principle to the limits. If you’re interested in innovating at scale to address big challenges in the world, this is the team for you. As an Applied Scientist on our team, you will focus on building state-of-the-art ML models for biology. Our team rewards curiosity while maintaining a laser-focus in bringing products to market. Competitive candidates are responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within an open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, startup-like environment. At the forefront of both academic and applied research in this product area, you have the opportunity to work together with a diverse and talented team of scientists, engineers, and product managers and collaborate with other teams. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Science, you will have access to large datasets with billions of images and video to build large-scale machine learning systems. Additionally, you will analyze and model terabytes of text, images, and other types of data to solve real-world problems and translate business and functional requirements into quick prototypes or proofs of concept. We are looking for smart scientists capable of using a variety of domain expertise combined with machine learning and statistical techniques to invent, design, evangelize, and implement state-of-the-art solutions for never-before-solved problems. About the team Our team highly values work-life balance, mentorship and career growth. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects and offer training that will challenge you to become your best.

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